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8 Books in the YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography / Cultural Category

When You Hear Me (You Hear Us): Voices On Youth Incarceration

Hairvolution: Her Hair, Her Story, Our History

Maison Rouge: Memories of a Childhood in War

American Struggle: Teens Respond to Jacob Lawrence

Make It Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life

Discovering Wes Moore

Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High

Open the Unusual Door: True Life Stories of Challenge, Adventure, and Success by Black Americans